IT and facilities management contracts have been let by individual trusts in an uncoordinated way and few will therefore deliver best value.
Construction giant Carillion, for instance, introduced a system that allows products at the end of facilities management contracts to be reused elsewhere within the business, rather than thrown away.
Serco has minimal direct exposure to Carillion through joint ventures, but last year it agreed to buy some facilities management contracts for the NHS from Carillion in a £47.7m deal.
The three boroughs are currently jointly tendering for a 10-year, £300m-£455m, total facilities management contract due to start in May 2013.
Rio Tinto announced in March that Sodexo, a French company that also runs Australian prisons, had been enlisted in a 10-year facilities management contract encompassing three ports, six towns, three aerodromes, 15 operational sites, 42 accommodation sites, 134 town assets, 336 commercial buildings and 3,259 residential properties.
comprises of facilities management, contracting and transport, and strategic investments.
The Service segment comprises of facilities management, contracting and transport, and strategic investments.
So they will no longer include what is known as soft facilities management, or contracts for catering, cleaning, security and IT.
A large and untapped market: Of the $157 billion spent on food and facilities management, only 17% is contracted.
Supply-side mechanisms have also been introduced to strengthen human resource and facility management, including contracting-in and out of health management and service delivery working with international NGO operators between 1999 and 2002, a hybrid contracting implemented between 2003 and 2008, and internal contracting in form of Special Operating Agencies (SOA) since 2009 [ 9].
In a move that will deepen concerns over the privatisation of justice contracts, Grayling announced that he had referred two more G4S contracts, involving facilities management for the courts, to the SFO to establish whether any dishonesty had taken place.
